@inproceedings{cafagna-etal-2022-understanding,
    title = "Understanding Cross-modal Interactions in {V}{\&}{L} Models that Generate Scene Descriptions",
    author = "Cafagna, Michele  and
      van Deemter, Kees  and
      Gatt, Albert",
    editor = "Han, Wenjuan  and
      Zheng, Zilong  and
      Lin, Zhouhan  and
      Jin, Lifeng  and
      Shen, Yikang  and
      Kim, Yoon  and
      Tu, Kewei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Unimodal and Multimodal Induction of Linguistic Structures (UM-IoS)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2022.umios-1.6/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.umios-1.6",
    pages = "56--72",
    abstract = "Image captioning models tend to describe images in an object-centric way, emphasising visible objects. But image descriptions can also abstract away from objects and describe the type of scene depicted. In this paper, we explore the potential of a state of the art Vision and Language model, VinVL, to caption images at the scene level using (1) a novel dataset which pairs images with both object-centric and scene descriptions. Through (2) an in-depth analysis of the effect of the fine-tuning, we show (3) that a small amount of curated data suffices to generate scene descriptions without losing the capability to identify object-level concepts in the scene; the model acquires a more holistic view of the image compared to when object-centric descriptions are generated. We discuss the parallels between these results and insights from computational and cognitive science research on scene perception."
}